Word: tiring
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...outskirts of Paris one day in 1946, Reeves Lewenthal, a wide-awake young U.S. art dealer, stopped his car, got out and ruefully inspected a flat tire. It was a blowout all right and he had no spare. Then, as Lewenthal retells it, he made for a shadowy little bistro, telephoned a garage and ordered a bite to eat. A few age-stained canvases were hung about the walls. One even had a hole in it. Lewenthal flicked on his cigarette lighter and looked more closely at the grimy thing. He almost jumped out of his skin...
...stay. I wanted no part of society people who were looking for someone to say sweet things to them on Sunday. I know now that I misjudged them, but at that time I didn't think they meant business-that it was just a fad they'd tire...
...Bain, deputy chairman of Imperial Chemicals and head of the Federation of British Industries; the U.S. contingent by Board Chairman Philip Reed of General Electric. The council met for the first time late in October, then set off on a whirlwind tour of factories-electrical and mechanical engineering, clothing, tire and radio plants near London, machine tool and auto plants in Birmingham, textile factories in Bradford, pottery works in Stoke, the busy Clydeside shipyards in Glasgow...
...Dayton Rubber Co., Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., General Tire & Rubber Co., B. F. Goodrich Co., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Lee Rubber & Tire Corp., Seiberling Rubber Co., and United States Rubber...
When the Indians from Hanover come into town they usually manage to provide a weekend's entertainment for everyone in the vicinity without resorting to anything more than a few bottles of firewater. For those who tire of defending themselves against these Dartmouth pranksters, however, there will be plenty of entertainment in town today and tomorrow...